A man wanted in connection with a May 2 fatal shooting in St. Roch was caught in Lafayette after authorities there said he was driving with an expired license plate.

A deputy with the Lafayette Marshal's Office Warrant Division pulled over a vehicle Tuesday (May 23) and discovered the driver, 31-year-old Ronald Davis, has a warrant for second-degree murder, the Marshal's Office said. Davis was arrested and is expected to be transported to New Orleans to face charges in the death of Raymond Williams, 45.

New Orleans police
said Williams and Davis were in a fight about 11:45 a.m. in the 1800 block of Franklin Avenue. The two men pulled out guns and started shooting, police said.

Williams and a third man - a 26-year-old who police said "became involved" in the fight - were struck by gunfire and taken to an area hospital, where Williams later died. Police have not released information about the other man's condition.

Investigators placed five evidence cones near the front entrance of Fame Food Mart, located between Almonaster Avenue, Franklin Avenue and North Prieur Street. Another seven cones were placed on Prieur.

Sarah Palmer, who was on the neutral ground at Prieur and Almonaster at the time of the shooting, said at the scene that she saw a man holding a gun and standing outside the store.

"He was randomly shooting," Palmer said. "He just looked really frantic. I don't know what he was shooting at."

The day after the shooting, police released a photo of a "person of interest (who) is believed to have valuable information" about the shooting.

Orleans Parish court records show Davis was previously arrested in August 2014 and charged with attempted second-degree murder following
an afternoon shootout on South Rampart Street
, a block off Canal Street. The charge was later amended to simple battery, records show, and Davis, after pleading guilty, received a six-month suspended sentence and six months of inactive probation.

Davis had been scheduled for a June 16 arraignment on two separate arrests this year: a June 13 unauthorized use of a movable arrest and an April 6 domestic abuse battery arrest.